CT-4510; Business Change – Regulatory Transformation

B2e Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Part time

Job summary

B2e Consulting is seeking experienced Business Change specialists to support a major UK financial services client on high-profile regulatory transformation programmes. You will own people, processes, technology and ways of working to ensure changes are adopted and sustained.

Hybrid role with 50% London client site. Start ASAP. Duration: 12 months +, Inside IR35. This assignment requires leadership across adoption activities, with a focus on governance and stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering regulatory change programmes, particularly within UK financial services or regulatory organisations.
• Significant experience leading Business Change initiatives and delivering organisational transformation across people, processes, technology and behaviours.
• A proven track record of delivering complex transformation or transition programmes and leading change activities and teams.
• Experience applying structured change management approaches across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and build consensus.
• Experience developing and delivering change impact assessments, stakeholder engagement plans, business readiness assessments and adoption activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify operational risks, manage dependencies and develop pragmatic solutions.
• Experience supporting technology-enabled and process-driven organisational change.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in complex and evolving environments
• Familiarity with Prosci change management methodologies would also be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a structured business change approach aligned with programme objectives and delivery milestones.
• Undertake change impact assessments, identifying people, process and operational impacts and prioritising the resulting change activities
• Develop and deliver change management strategies, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training and resistance management.
• Assess business readiness for implementation, including readiness criteria, go-live preparation and change champion networks
• Identify and manage people-related risks, issues and dependencies across interconnected workstreams.
• Work closely with programme teams, operational stakeholders and subject matter experts to coordinate change activities and ensure alignment.
• Support the transition to business-as-usual operations, ensuring new processes, capabilities and ways of working are successfully embedded.
• Provide guidance and informal coaching to other Business Change team members, contributing to the development of change management capabilities and best practices.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory change

Leadership

Communication

Problem-solving

Job description

Do you have significant experience leading complex business change initiatives, helping organisations successfully adopt and embed changes across people, processes, technology and ways of working?

We have two consulting opportunities supporting our client, a major UK financial services organisation on separate, high-profile regulatory transformation programmes.

The programmes involve different types of organisational change. One focuses on reforming established regulatory processes and operating arrangements, while the other involves implementing new regulatory frameworks, business processes and operational capabilities.

Both assignments require experienced Business Change specialists who can take ownership of the people and organisational aspects of transformation, ensuring that change is understood, adopted and sustained.

The project needs a consultant who:

• Has experience delivering regulatory change programmes, particularly within UK financial services or regulatory organisations
• Can lead business change activities across complex transformation programmes, covering people, processes, technology, culture and behaviours.
• Assess the organisational impacts of change and develop practical strategies to support successful adoption.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders across business, operational, regulatory and technology functions.
• Lead business readiness, implementation and transition activities, ensuring change is embedded within business-as-usual operations
• Familiarity with Prosci change management methodologies would also be beneficial.

Key services:

• Design and implement a structured business change approach aligned with programme objectives and delivery milestones.
• Undertake change impact assessments, identifying people, process and operational impacts and prioritising the resulting change activities
• Develop and deliver change management strategies, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training and resistance management.
• Assess business readiness for implementation, including readiness criteria, go-live preparation and change champion networks
• Identify and manage people-related risks, issues and dependencies across interconnected workstreams.
• Work closely with programme teams, operational stakeholders and subject matter experts to coordinate change activities and ensure alignment.
• Support the transition to business-as-usual operations, ensuring new processes, capabilities and ways of working are successfully embedded.
• Provide guidance and informal coaching to other Business Change team members, contributing to the development of change management capabilities and best practices.

Mandatory requirements:

• Experience delivering regulatory change programmes, particularly within UK financial services or regulatory organisations
• Significant experience leading Business Change initiatives and delivering organisational transformation across people, processes, technology and behaviours.
• A proven track record of delivering complex transformation or transition programmes and leading change activities and teams.
• Experience applying structured change management approaches across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and build consensus.
• Experience developing and delivering change impact assessments, stakeholder engagement plans, business readiness assessments and adoption activities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify operational risks, manage dependencies and develop pragmatic solutions.
• Experience supporting technology-enabled and process-driven organisational change.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in complex and evolving environments
• Familiarity with Prosci change management methodologies would also be beneficial.

Working Pattern: Hybrid - 50% London client site
Contract Type: Inside IR35
Start: ASAP
Duration: 12 months +